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What are some places where I can get the collector cards?

  • 1 of 17: Well, they're very easy to see.  They're blue with a blackish outline.
  • 2 of 17: If you want the exact locations of some of the cards, keep reading.  Warning: Spoiler locations ahead.
  • 3 of 17: Under the stage awning, just below the pulpit at the Stone Cutters.
  • 4 of 17: In Krusty's office at Krustylu Studios.  Touch the TV when Krusty is done talking and when the TV is fuzzy and blue, to make a card appear.
  • 5 of 17: Outside the window of Bart's treehouse attached to a tree.
  • 6 of 17: In the Simpson home, in Maggie's room, under her bed, next to the monkey hand.
  • 7 of 17: Click on the Captain sign above the potato chips in the Kwik-E-Mart, and the Captain figure will blow and a card will appear out of his pipe.
  • 8 of 17: Under the flag stand in Mayor Quimby's office.
  • 9 of 17: On the top right bookshelf in Grampa's room at the Retirement Castle.
  • 10 of 17: In Principal Skinner's office, at Springfield Elementary, in the cassette player.
  • 11 of 17: In Mr. Burns' Office at the Nuclear Power Plant, near his desk.
  • 12 of 17: #10. Next to one of the illegal panda's boxes in the secret back room at Moe's Tavern.
  • 13 of 17: #11. On the bottom shelf of Reverend Lovejoy's pulpit at the Church.
  • 14 of 17: #12. In the back of the cabinet underneath the hamster in Mrs. Hoover's room at Springfield Elementary.
  • 15 of 17: #13. In the ashtray next to Mrs. Krabapple's desk in the Library.
  • 16 of 17: #14. On the wall, next to the left-most door in the reactor core at the Nuclear Power Plant.
  • 17 of 17: #15. Behind the Labor Laws poster above the water fountain on the wall in the lobby of Krustylu Studios.